Maker of The Parrott , Famous Civil War 1 i i WEST POINT FOUNDRY ! The ~a~ol$onicWars demonstrat&d the importance of in modern warfdre. This was brought home to the American people when in the , they found themselves opposed by heavy artillery in the hand8 of seasoned troops, both of which we lacked. The first graduate of West Point Military Academy, General Joseph Swift determined that it would not happen again. He was able to en- list the financial backing of , willram Kemble and others. In 1818 they organized the West Point Foundry with kstablishments at Cold Spring and City. It was necessary to "bootleg" skilled labor out of Europe by way of Ireland. They were able to evade ship pursuit. Their first government demonstration of heavy cannon firing caused some of the cannon to burst. But they were ablt to prove the fault was not in the cannon but In the faulty ammunitiol So, this Foqndry along with three other foundries were subsidized by the government. Success followed their enterprise until it was said,"there was no other foundry like it in America". Prom 50 to 100 heavy ordnance were made each year with the accompanying ammhition. They branched out. Stoves were just becoming popular. Iron pipe replaced wood for water mains in New York and Boston. Machinery for making sugar in South America and the Southern States was in demand. Engines for steamboats and railroads were made. The famous "DeWitt Clinton" railroad engine was built in 1831. It is now the property of the New York Central. A seventy-foot vessel was built, much of it made of iron, but this venture was not followed up. The caatlngs were made at Cold Spring and finished in New York. They went by sloop in summer aqd by team in winter. In eal-ly years, one hundred men were employ@ the year round to mine ore, cut hardwoods, prepare it as charcoal'and team it eight miles to the Foundry. Forty tons of iron were psocessed in the blast furnace every day. Later iron was mined and smelted in and shipped to Cold Spring to be finished. -- -4. The year after the first government tests at Cold Sfwing, Robert Parrott enrolled at West Point Military Academy. The, interest in the Foundry across the probably determin d his speci- alization in artillery. By 1836, he had advanced to 6 aptain of Ordnance and was located at Washington,D.C. as the Aarsistant of Ordnance. In that year, things began to happen at the West Polnt Foundry. Gouverneur Kemble went to Washington for four years ap Congressman from his district. In a short time, Parrott was tranbferred to the West Point Foundry to supervise ordnance manufacture. But in a few months,he resigned his commission in the army to become Superinten- dent of the Foundry. Three years later, he married Miss Mary Kemble sister of Gouverneur Kemble. DurSng these three years, the finishing branch of the Foundry was moved from New York to Cold, Spring. For the next thirty years, Parrott gave his energlea to improving ordnance. The cliffs across the Hudson Rive7 became the target for testing his experiments. By the year before the Civi War, Parrott had produced a cannon made of cast iron which was to S, volutionize artillery. .The government ha some of these when the: War began. These were of two ty es; those suitable fop operation in mobile conf~ictand heavier g s for seige purposes. At the fiqst Battle of Bull$ Run, the North lost a third of their artillery tQ the South. In addition to the ten-pound, shot, three inch bore fjeld guns, a thirty-pound Parrott seige gun was lost. At the Battle of Gettysburg, General Warren, a native of' Cold Spring, helped lay Out the line of battle. He saved the North's left flank WEST POINT FOUNDRY (2) by diverting infantry and artillery to Little Round Top. The hill was too steep for horses, but the men dragged these 900 pound Parrott Cannon to the hill top. These field guns were accurate for more than a mile. The larger seige guns ranged up to more than ten inches in diameter At the Seige of Charleston, a heavy gun was needed to fire from a swamp, A West Pointer was called upon. He facetiously asked for men eighteen feet tall. Serrellls volunteers were called in and sunk files sixteen feet into the swamp for a platform. The "Swamp Angel as the mounted Parrot gun was called, began bombarding the de- fenses of the city. This gun shot accurately six miles. When the muzzle was blown off, it still operated accurately. When Richmond and Petersburg were under seige, a seige "train" with many heavy Parrott guns were brought to bear on the fortifications. Washington was surrounded by 900 cannon for defense. Many were Pamtts. More than 3000 guns and three million projectiles were produced at Cold Spring during the war. Not only were the Parrott guns most accurate but the munitions which were supplied were superior to those put out by the South. In the spring of 1864, the new seven-shot repeating carbine was being made at the foundry. The growing power of the northern cavalry was greatly augmented by this new-- weapon. After the War, The Parrott cannon was in demand in foreign coun- tries. Parrott alao invented a better fired life line for saving those in danger on the seas. During the Panic of 1873, the Foundry was in trouble. The change of administration affected contracts. Parrott had died. The rich iron ore deposits in the west were superior to those near the Foun- dry and the more distant ores In Pennsylvania whioh were the Foun- dry t s source of supply. At times, ae many as 1000 men were employed. This along with other industrial enterprises in the County inoreased the County's popu- lation a third during the war years. But by 1886, the population OR Cold Spring had declined to what it had been fAfty years before. In 1911 the Foundry was closed, after almost one hundred years of suc- cessful operation. PUTNAM COUNTY HISTORIAN Rorace E. Hillery Patters on, New York PUTKAM COUhTTY IN THE CIVIL WAR - TFIFU) EDITION 1961 Thta third edition on 'Putnam County in the Civil karw completes half of our projeat. We take a quibk look back and ahead.- LINCOLN AT COLD SPRINU 1862 n While McClellan was retreating in the Peninsular Campaign and Pope, an untried General was in Western Virginia, President Lincoln, unobserved, visited General Scott at West Point. Col. D. Cm McCullum, Military Director of Railroads, and Lincoln's body guard accompanied him. President Samuel Sloan of the Hudson River Railroad (now the New York Central ) and General Scott met them at Garrison at 3 AM June 24, 1862, They croased to West Point on Belcherfs Ferry and took carriage to the new Cozzenfs Ro tel. After a 7 o'clock breakfast, Lincoln and Scott discussed military affairs for several houra, Then joined by Col, Bowen and hr. Sloan, they visited West Point for some time. Ferrying to Cold Spring, they observed the Wsting of heavy Parrott Guns at the West Point Foundry. A 100 pound shell was fired 15 times and a 200 ~oundshell was fired 5 times. Tradition says trouble developed in fhing. Finally Lincoln said, "1 believe it will fire, letts eat." Returning at 8 pm to the hotel, a Levee was held. The President adroitly parried ill-advised questions and sugmstive sentences. Autographs were freely dispensed. At midnight the Academy band sere- naded the slee7ing President. After breakfast the next morning, a small Levee and a drive Mr. Belcher sugpested a ferry trip up the River. The ?arrott gun target across the River was examined. As they came to the railroad tunnel north of Cold Spring, which was being d ouble-traaked, Lincoln called it, "one of your rat holes." COMINU EVENTS by 18 Carl Carmer will speak at the Peekskill Military Academy. This will be worth hearing. Boscobel holds its opening, May 21 Governor Nelson Rockerfeller is guest of honor. This promises to be a national shrine. May 30 the Putnam County Historical Society plans an auction of antiques. Tours are planned in June and July. Their exhibit will be opened this summer in their new home. The ihhopac-Carml Rotary Club will man the Inspiration Point 111- formtlon Service, Thoy are asking service Club to contribute literature that will publicize our County. The Enoch Crosby DAR expect to goon announ- the d$e of the erection of the Statue of S hll 1,udingtonts Ride on Carmelts lake front. &IS EDITION BAS ?aNY COYTRIBUTORS The 59th Reglment photo of Captain Adam hhttice and new8 from the Dean Boys was given by Xrs. Addison Hopkina. Alfred Dm Vores, has Charles Vorea letter. %incoln at Cold springn is a digest of a New York Times article PUTMAM COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR - THIRD EDITION 1961 (2) loaned by Mrs. Maeguerite Rogers, granddaughter of Railroad Presi- dent Samuel Sloan. Lincoln1 s quips are traditions in the Xnmble- Parrot family by Mrai. Beata Porter, and in the Belcher family by Col. Taylor Belcher. Col, N. B. Wilson of West Point Military Academy gave us Hagor- General Warrenls biography. The accompanying photo is of the statue which stands on Little Round Top, Gettysburg. The Highland Chemical Works'photo was loaned by Mrs. Henry Bel- lefeuille of Peekskill and Mrs. Charles Felton of Osalnlng, daughters Of Mr. Ed Nation, part owner and operator of the plant for over 40 years. We particularly thankMiss Henrietta Gerwig for her research and write up. TYING OFF Requests have come to identify the men in the Fourth Heavy Ar- tillery picture shoh in our last edition. With the help of Collin T. Naylor Jr. of the'Highland Press and Erling Abel, I make a t6ntative identification. From left to right, Lindon Cowl, Brig.Gen. Thomas Allcock, Col. Frank Williams, Sgt. Oscar $napp, Capt. Marshall McKeel, Maj. Heni-y T. Lee, 1st Lt. M.V.B. Akin, Mag. Thomas Sears, Elijah Penny. The last two are unidentified, Fourth Heavy Artillery, Company A Veterans from Putnam County, missing from our Ronor.Rol1: George Benedict, Mitchell W. Brooks, Ahos Butler, William J. Corbon, Josiah Davis, Oliver Davis, John X. Farrington; Ferdinand LBbanon, Charles Eorgan, Bernard Hchlly, David Parker, Henry Rusco, David A. Shears, James H. Still. SPORTSHAN SHOW We thank the sponsors of the Sportsman Show for the opportunity of meeting so many people interested in our County's historic backgrounds some old-some new. These people gave of their time in manning the Civil War Dis- playr Mrs. William Miller, Mrs. Walter Bellinger, Mrs. Charles Bloomer, Mrs. Evelyn Agor, Mrs. George Crosswell, Nicholas Smith, John Madden, Geor e Buechel, Fred Haida. Fred DeWittls ff$lOO,OOO Rewardw caught the eye. Nicholas Smith, Librarian of the Field Library in Peekskill, loaned samples of the most extensive Civil War collection in Westchester County, among them the 60 voluine sets on the Amy and Navy. Erling Abel, Mrs. Evelyn Agor, Mrs. Frank Lloyd loaned books. Mrs. Cieorge Crosswell and Fred Haida gave books to our sizable county library on the Civil War. Joseph Schachinger and Walter Held added to our genealogical materials. Thanks to all these friends and to the Sportsmen magazine for their history write-up. You who examined our display of Civil War sketches will be in- terested to see some of them reproduced in the Hational Geographic of April, WANTED BY JULY Putnam County Civil War veteran photos or tintypes. The origi- nal and a copy will be returned to you. Some one to edit Pelletrau's veteran list of the Sixth Heavy Artillery. MORE VETERANS FOR OUR HONOR ROLL We thank Miss Jean Saunders for help in locating about forty more Civil War Veterans. When sifted down we hope to add 1.50 men to our Honor Roll. r- - -- 59th INFANTRY REGIMENT 9 CO?dPANY I SL I President Lincoln*s first call for 75,000 volunteers from the nation soon brought more than lOO,OOO men of which 40,000 were from New J York State. The 38th Infantry Regiment had almost the only I men from Putnam County when the Battle of Bull ,I Run was fought. These were enlisted by Gerald , Brown of Croton Falla. With their defeat at Bull Run, a aall for 509,000 three year volunteers went out. This , great army was assembled, drilled, equipped over a period of nine months, We have followed the I enlistment of Company A of the Fourth Heavy Artillery, Thomas Seara of Patterson, having enlisted the men, was elected Captain, Wn ti1 then, everything was done haphazardly. In order to bring order out of chaos, beginning September 7, the Oovernor~sOK was required of any one seeking to en- list volunteers. Ada~lB. Ma ttice presented hia certificate at Carme1 on that day and began enlisting. (The above photo of Captain hlattice was taken shor tly after encampment at Washington. ) Cornelius Price of Mahopaa was chosen First Lieutenant. Ten more veterans in this Company will be added to our County Honor Roll. John Dean, from Horae Pound Road, north of Cartml, described their experiences after arriving at Waahington. "We have plenty to eat and drink and too much to wear at present, though we may need it by and by. The weather here is cool and pleasant, the ground is frozen about an inch deep. We have bread and butter, pork, beef, beans, fish, coffee and water to eat and drink. We have a tent and stove and plenty of wood of which we make fire. We have leaves and cornstalks for a bed upon which we put a blanket, lay down and cover up with 2 or 3 others." (~ohnand hie brother William had their pictures taken and will appear in a later edition. ) An epidemic of measles caused John's death. It occured just when all leaves were cancelled and no one was allowed to escort his body home. John "was the first casualty from Carmel and a great fuss was made with a flag draped casket and a military funeral in the Baptis t Church." It was just a year after enlistment began of this Company in Putnam County before they were in battle. The regiment left New York in November. This 59th Regiment was a mlxture of small units. While they were in camp, they were reorganized. A group from Cortlandt under Capt. James L. Paulding, a few from White Plains and from Rockland County were consolidated to make a full company. The Putnam County group were half the Compmy. Capt. Paulding reeigned and Mattice be- came Captain of Company I. M The failure of Gen. McClellan in the Penisular Campais and of Gen. Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run took place while the 59th Regiment 1s final preparations were going on. Gen. Lee determined on a bold stroke ,to invade the north, to wrest the State of Haryland from the North and to possibly capture Washington. Maryland fa enlistments were few. As Lee marched North, an army was de tached again3 t Harper's Ferr Over 11,000 Union sold iere Were captured, But the delay kept Eefs army apart lone enou[.fi to endanger hefs plans. General McClellan had been recalled to command the Army of the Potomac. FIe joined battle with Lee at Antietam ~eptember17, about 59th INFANTRY - COMPANY I 2 40 miles northwest of Washington. This was the bloodiest one day of battle of the war. Each side lost about 13,000 men killed and wounded, Under hn, Sedgwick, later one of Grant's three major corps leaders, the 59th Regiment experienced their first battle. A bulge had been made in the South1s 'left center. The first corps was withdrawn and'Sedgwick went in. A sharp wedge was driven into the Southern line, But a heavy counterattack wrought havoc on the 59th. This was to be'their worst battle. A fourth of the 59th was killed or wounded. Putnam County lost half tUfr enlistment. William Dean was shot through the jaw and his back was injured. A btidd dragged him off the field. He was never able to use his Jaw. 'Speech was difficult at first and he could only eat finely chopped food which he gut into his mouth through the hole in his jaw. His back injury curved more and more until he was bent nearly'double but he lived to be 70 and became an expert fruit- grower.* At'the close of the day, Lee had lost a-third of his fighting force. Durfng the night, the North received as many fresh troops as all of Lee's exhausted army, It is generally conceeded that if McClellan had forced battle the next day, Lee's army would have been pushed into the Potomac River. During this day of inaction, the two'armies faced each other. That night Lee crossed the Potomac, Though the issue of Union or States Rights was the major motive which divided the nation, the problem of slavery was always pre- sent, A; only ten per cent of the South held slaves, in time it was thought the South would free the slaves. Be that as it may, the thrust of slavery brought forth the proposal to buy the freedom of all'slaves. Coming during the fever of war, it proved unaccept- able. As areas of the South came under Northern domination, the mass attachment of colored people to the Amy became a problem. The general sentiment of the Northern soldier became more favorable to freedom as the colored man proved himself serviceable to the army in a multitude of ways. After the , the growing attitude in the Army and at home found expression in President Lincolnt s Emancipation Proclamation. But Charles Vores found himself encamped in Vir- gida two weeks after colored freedom began. Great numbers of colored people were filtering through the army on their way to Washington. He wrote home in a bitter strain of the colored man's exuberant spirit of freedom and the northern soldierts grim pros- pect before him. To return to the 59th Regiment after Antietam. Within a month there was a shake up. Captain A. Mattice resigned. Edward F. Richards of Southeast became Captain of Company D and was later made major by . Major Richardvs name is missing from our County's Honor Roll, From then to the close of the war, the 59th was in every im- portant battle of the Army of the Potomac. While sharply engaged and losses were experienced in every engagement, it was under Grant that another fourth of the Regiment was lost in the four months from the Wilderness to the heavy battles of Petersburg and of Ream's Station. They were present at Lee's surrender at Apgoma t ax. MAJOR GENERAL GOWVERNEUR KEMBLE WARREN HIS MONUMENT STANDS ON LITTIE ROUND TOP, GETTYSBURG Gouverneur was born in Cold Spring in 1830. He was a student at Kingsley la Classical and MBthematical School when he reueived his appointment to West Point, He graduated in 1850, For four years he surveyed the Mississippi delta, In 1854 he was sent west of the !blississippi to survey and to eealuate three possible railroad routes to the Pacific. His explore tione passed through areas where Indians and Whites were at war. In 1859 Warren was ordered to West Point. When the Civil War began, Warren became Lt, of the Fifth New York Volunteers. His regiment with their brilliant Zouave uniform was under General Butler at Fortresa Monroe, They fought at Big Bethel on June 10, In Augast he commanded the regiment. He was transferred to Washington to aid in building its deferses. His regiment was in the Penisular Campaign where he was commended for bravery at kine Mill. mnaferred to Pope 9s Command, his regiment 10st more than half their man at the Second Battle of Bull Run, In September he was made Brigadier General. He participated in the Battles of Anteta;m, Fred- ericksburg and Chancellorsville. On June 8 he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Army of the Potomac, Hookerls resignation three days before Gettysburg caused Meade to misa the first day of battle, Meade, Hancock and Wamen laid out the line of battle, The next day Hood attacked the Wnionrs left flank. Warren diverted men and artillery to the top of Little Round Top just in the nick of time. His monument which you see here standa on Little Round Top for saving "The key of the Union positionn. On August R he was appointed Major General in uommand of the Second Corps. In October at the Battle of Centerville, his corps held the line against great odda, When Grant came East, Warren commanded the Fifth Corps. During the Campaign from the Wilderness to Pe tersburg, his corps auf fered heavily due to "trencht' warfare, The Battle of Five Forka was the beginning of Lee fs last retreat. Grant had given Sheridan commnd of the left flank. After the battle, Sheridan relieved Warren of his command and was left in defense of Petersburg. When transferred to Miaaissippi, he reg igned, He asked for a trial but it was not granted until after his death, The trial exhonorated him. At his death at 52, he refused the honors usually accorded our Nation's heroea because his name wag still under shadow, For 17 yeare following the War, he distinguished himelf as one of the beat engineera in the nation,

IT STARTED IN THE CIVIL WAR By Henrietta gemrig Manitou in the southwestern corner of Putnam County was once a thriving industrial area marked for rapid growth. The story begins in 1863 in the midst of the Civil War when the Hudson River Copper Company, precursor of the Highland Chemical Co., obtained a lease of 300 acres on Manitou Mountain, "for getting minerals of all kinds," from William H. Denning, an heir of the William Denning who had bought up as a speculation so much of the land confiscated in Revolutionary times from the Tory Beverly Robin- son and his wife Susanah. Five years later, the Company secured an additional lease, this time from Catherine and Pierre VanCortlandt, givinq the right to operate mines on Anthony's Nose, over the Put- nam-Westcheater border for no one could accurately locate the county line, marked by an old cedar tree-in the early nineteen hundreds Frederick Oore'King, owner of the mine property, was still looking for that tree. Be that as-it may, everyone in Manitou today knows the Old Cop- per Mine Road, knows too how dangerous it is to explore the un- protected openings of the miners twin shafts or the dark, slimy pita, terrifying with the memory of the geology instructorls acci- dental plunge to death in 1921 while his class of ban-cage boys looked on aghast. Everyone knows of the unsightly old mine dumps and how they give their bitter rlavor to Copper Mine Brook, But not everyone knows, or at least I did not, that the ore from the mine was hauled out by team and wagon down along the then existing roads - South Mountain pass Road, Beverly Lane, whioh is now 9D, below Col. Taylor Belcher~swhere it was loaded on scows, There wee at first no direct road from the mine down to the river, Copper was what the Hudson River Copper Company had hoped to find but it was iron sulphide which was really mined in greatest abundance. And so the idea of a Chemical Company was born, In January 1873, the newly organized Highland Chemical and Mining Com- pany secured "a piece of land, marsh and islands," near the railroad station stop of the Hi@land, as Manitou was then called, Here docks were built at which the ore-bearing scowa could land and also a big wooden shell of a plant enclosing vats and other equipment to process the ore. By 1877,"'some 80 men were employed at the w~rks ana 180 more at the mines.' Reid's county map of this period rhowr the mines very clearly and alsb an "Engine House' and *Mine Boarding House* up next to the mineso In 187TAugust, according to an'old newspaper clipping, the plant war produoi 200 carboys or 52,000 poundb of' sulphul'io acid every 24 hours -'oil of vitrol," they' 'then called this "inoat useful ohemical ever made,' whioh oould be utilized in the production of nltric, muriatic and many lerr Important acidr, super phosphater, gum cotton, disinfectants, bleiohes, purified kerosene, rust'removerr, acid drinkr, shoe blrobnlng and medical appeti~ersl The plant sent itr fumer far out on the river but towers were being built to recover the garer and ar a rafety measure, a new platinum substitute for the break- able glarr retort had been introduoed at a cost of' $17,000. 2 "The buildings of this Company," says William Pelletreau in his County History of 1886, "present a very conspicuous appearance on the banks of the river and the works gave employment to a large number of hands." But by 1886 the Company had stopped using local ores, which "had proved to be not so rich as had been sup- posed" and was insthad importing sulphur from Italy. In 1889 fire destroyed the plant, Mr. Thomas Torpey of Manitou, then five years old, still remembers the horror of that Saturday night. He remembrs too how quickly the plant was rebuilt by the Fort Montgomery contractor Aaron Clark. Tom Torpey went to work at odd jobe around the plant in 1900 for 83 cents a day, $5.00 a week, or half what a man could earn. He was number 71 on a payroll of 150 or so which included he says, not only Irish, English and Scotch but Swedes, Danes, Germans and even a Turkl He was to work at the plant until its final day - its last foreman, The end was already foreshadowed for in this same year of 1900 the Company was merged into Gene+al Chemical (now a division of Mammouth Allied Chemical end Dye.) Several other merged concernra moved into the plant. General Commercial was an enterprising com- pany. At the St. Loufs World's ,Fair fn 1904, it took First Prize for fta sulphurfc acid. But high protective tariffs ware by thi# time making imported sulphur far less economical to use than the ores from western mines, processed in plants farther west by newer methods than those of the increasingly obsolete High2and works. In 1907 the Company decided to test the ore from the old copper mfnci. The mine chambers were full of water and had to be pumped out, How I wish I could include here even a bit of the fascina- ting picture conveyed by young William T. Howell who, on five separate occasions, between May 1906 and November 1908, hiked up the mountain, explored the windy mine shafts, shouted into the echoing caverns, photographed everything he could and even cooked and ate prodigious numbers of lamb chops with horrible mine-water coffee near a chunk of frozen dynamite in the dark watery interior. [It is all related in Ch. 4 Vol I1 of the Hudson Highlands, to- gether with much factual material about the mines. The mine ore was analyzed in 1908 and the verdict was in the negative; By 1913 the plant was closed for good, The Junk House Wrecking Company from Long Idland City took it down. In 1914 the railroad withdrew its station agent. In 1917 an assessment upon General Chemical pr6perty of $225,000 was stbicken from the Philipatown taxroll. Only the old foundations, a ohinney or two, some pieces of broken carbo a bit of rotting dock and a big but neglected 'For RenC OF BaleK9CIign remained to mark the spot ae the weeds and brush took over, Finally in December 1942, the site was sold and soon afterward were erected the attractive water-front houses which have given it a new kind of life, PUTPIAM COUFlY EIISTORIAN Herace E. Hillerg Pattersen, New Yerk "PUTNAM COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR" - FOURTH EDITIOlQ 1961 This fourth edition on "Putnam County in the Civil War" fads the mext twe editiens fully planned. The State program expects to continue the Centennial Commemoration for the next four years. However, our County will emphasize other historic interests next year. What historic backgrounde would Interest you most? Let me know this month. A few ideas are iahund, but they t8ke time to hatch. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Andrew8 have given our County a Rev- olutionary manuscript of captured Americms fleeing their Cana- dian prison and the Incredible hardships experienced before reach- Ing home. This would make a fascinating continued story which has never seen print. Would this Interest you? Would some reproductions of your many gifts to the County whet your appetite? - General Charles G. Stevenllon has sent us m additional facet on the peraonality of Mad. Gen. Daniel Butterfield. His hobby was the compoeition of Bugle Calls. During the lull In the Civil War Peninsular Campaign of 1862, he became dissatisfied with "Lights Out" as used by the British Amy. Calling Oliver W.Horton the Brigade bugler, by trial and error, they arrived at Taps" as now known. Whenever we hear "Taps herafter, we nil1 thlnk of Putnam County's adopted son, General Butterfield.- We thank Edward Joyce, author of "Lake Mahopac' md John Gemmill for their part in making the enclosed vemiom possible. Mrs. J.T. Rorer has beg- Somerfs Record in the Civil War. Our common neighborhood exchanges makes more helpful uad complete this area's contributions to this hl8torio epoch In our sationls history. Welcome, Mre. Rorer! Lewis Young of Wash$ngton, D.C., a relative of Sybil Ludlng- ton, has added much to his father's army record from Kent. Elmer Lee has given us a lift on the Sixth Heavy Artillery. Your Historian is working on this now. We thank Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schouten for the gift to the County of "The Real America". Edward Markham' 8 15 volume set. Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Andrews has added Harperrs Civil War records. Thrnk you, Mrs. Addison Hopkins, for photos of the Dean boys, Veterans of the 59th Regiment. We deeply regret losing Robert Weeks and Duncam Campbell who have done so much to make this- edition possible. The Putnam County Infomution Booth in Inspir~tionPoint needa County boostere to take their turn one or two rZternoons during the next six weeks. What cm you Bay heartily about your County? You will meet people from every state in America, md from a score of foreign countries. It18 two to one , you will get a real kick out of it. Call Thorns Townsend, Camel Post- master, for your date. -